Opinion
Submitted May 30, 2003.
Argued and Submitted December 5, 2002.
Submission Vacated December 23, 2002.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION. (See Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 36-3)
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Before COWEN, HAWKINS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting by designation.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
The determination of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") that Petitioner Asan Edigemovich Kadirov ("Kadirov") lacked credibility on an issue going to the heart of his asylum claim (whether and under what circumstances Kadirov was assaulted by Uzbekistani nationals) is sufficiently supported by the record, as is the BIA's determination that Kadirov's employment
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difficulties did not rise to the level of persecution.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.